Programming note: The 2017 Appellate Judges Education Institute Summit will take place in Long Beach, California in November 2017. And tomorrow evening and Thursday morning, the AJEI's Education Committee will meet in Long Beach to plan the substance of this year's Summit. As a result, I will be spending much of tomorrow in transit to California.

"D.C. Circuit Review -- Reviewed: 'It's Like the D.C. Circuit is Actively Trying to Undermine Your Column.'" Aaron Nielson has this post at the "Notice & Comment" blog of the Yale Journal on Regulation.Posted at 09:42 AM by Howard Bashman

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Access today's Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court did not grant review in any new cases, but the Court did call for the views of the Solicitor General's office in one case -- the New Jersey sports betting case.Posted at 09:32 AM by Howard Bashman

"How Cruz and Trump learned to like each other: Ted Cruz was once one of Donald Trump's most vocal critics; Now he's one of the president-elect's most important Senate allies." Eliana Johnson of Politico.com has this report.Posted at 01:09 PM by Howard Bashman

"The untold story of how Antonin Scalia's 'gift to Canada' shaped our spy services; As Donald Trump mulls a Supreme Court successor to the conservative firebrand judge, Sean Fine examines how a young, decidedly evenhanded Scalia helped the Canadian government in the 1970s to get a grip on domestic spy agencies that had begun to spin out of control": Sean Fine has this article in today's edition of The Toronto Globe and Mail.Posted at 08:40 PM by Howard Bashman